Komen spokeswoman Leslie Aun said the funding cut came from a new policy barring grants to groups under government investigation. Planned Parenthood is the focus of a probe launched by Rep. Cliff Stearns, a Florida Republican, “to determine whether public money was improperly spent on abortions,” the AP says. Planned Parenthood Federation of America president Cecile Richards says the probe was politically motivated.

“It’s hard to understand how an organization with whom we share a mission of saving women’s lives could have bowed to this kind of bullying,” Richards said in the AP story.

Komen has been on the “boycott list” of Life Decisions International which boycotts groups that work with Planned Parenthood, the AP says. In December their publishing division recalled pink Bibles it sold “because some of the money generated for Komen was being routed to Planned Parenthood.”

A spokesperson for Komen said the investigation, and not the boycott-type tactics, were the reason for the funding cut-off.

Uh-huh. We believe them. Really. And was that policy put in place before or after the boycott started?